As always, George makes several insightful points, and I hope they will be taken up. But you'll notice that he didn't actually say whether Moynihan Station would improve the reverse commute.

Expanding and upgrading subway connections, increasing reverse-peak service and integrating fares are all things that could be done without making any changes at street level. The LIRR already has a concourse west of Eighth Avenue.

If anything, putting a station in the Farley Building will make subway connections worse. And money spent on a fancy new station is money that could otherwise be spent on subway connections, reverse-peak service and fare integration.

George didn't mention another of his important proposals: through-running. If the bureaucracies weren't so set in their ways, we could implement through trains from Trenton to Stamford, Dover to New Haven, and Long Branch to New Canaan. Two billion dollars would go a long way towards installing enough catenary to allow through trains from Montclair State to Port Washington. That would actually free up capacity at Penn Station, because trains wouldn't have to be routed to the West Side or Sunnyside Yards.

Let's get MSG to move somewhere else and rebuild a grand station between Seventh and Eight Avenue. Let someone else have the Farley Building and use the money for transportation.